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Making History: 16/02/2016

16/02/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Making History, 16/02/2016

A date with Dan Snow, mummies in Wiltshire, and why the Cold War is hotting up.

Dan Snow argues for 1759 as the most remarkable year in British history, Tom Holland meets the mummies of Wiltshire, and we hear why Deutschland '83 is striking a chord in UK 2016.

Helen Castor takes the chair for the programme which showcases new historical research and the people doing it.

Today, Tom Holland is on the Dorset/Wiltshire border where a farmer has dug up a Bronze Age body. Remarkably, as Dr Tom Booth from the University of Sheffield explains, this is far from unique. Indeed, just when the Pharaohs were building the pyramids to house them forever, Bronze Age Britons were busy mummifying their dead too.

With Bridge of Spies and now Deutschland '83, Helen Castor finds out why the Cold War has become such a hot topic with historians as well as TV viewers.

And Dan Snow takes us back to the year when the British Museum opened its doors for the first time, Wedgwood started production, Kew Gardens was founded and Britain swept almost everyone away on battlefields and seas across the globe. Is 1759 the most important date in history?


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